The End to the Beginning

I would like to discuss re-evaluating what we have learned in the past about the Word, about the Scriptures that have become familiar with us, and moving forward, after the seasons of the resurrection of Christ which includes: Passover, counting the Omer, and Pentecost. What has changed? Have we changed? Where is the fruit of that change? Where is the evidence and essence of the Holy Spirit? 

The essence that begins with love, that has joy, and peace? Where is patience, kindness, goodness, and gentleness? Where is the evidence in the body of Christ being released in the world today? As believers in Jesus Christ, this is what we should be unveiling to the world to see. They should be looking upon the true church of the Lord Jesus Christ as the evidence that says God is with us, wherever we go. Not just a variety of Christian denominations. Where are we seeing that?

One of the things that I like to do digging deeper answering these questions is to take a better look at what we've been taught, what’s been familiar to us, and see if God is telling us something new in this season where we are at. Scripture tells us that God is showing us something new every morning. Do we believe that? “They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness” (Lamentations 3:23). 

So, this is basic… if you were to buy a book, the way the book begins, and ends should have some kind of connection to what the book is about. When we think about the Bible, the first book being Genesis as the beginning, and then the book of Revelation at the end, we tend to conclude the Bible as scary with monsters. Our soul says, “Get me out of here."

In a totally different way than man’s way of writing, God created the end before Genesis 1:1. Most people wouldn't want to read a book that ended with doom, gloom, and escapism. Yes, we have a “new Jerusalem” at the very end, but the process of getting there is exhausting just to read. The last part of our life, our book or scroll, was designed to have hope with a “happily married, or happiness ever after” ending. Is that what the Bible's trying to tell us, and we've missed it, because of what theologians have taught? Most pastors and teachers of the Bible take us through the fire of negativity for us to want to die and escape earth to someplace else called heaven?  

Have you researched it on your own? A few words that I want to address in Isaiah 46:10, which says, "God declared the end from the beginning. And from ancient times, the things that are not yet done, saying, 'My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure.'"

Wow. He says in the verse, right before that, "Remember the former things of old, for I am God, and there is none else. I am God, and there is none like me."

Okay, so if we take this from the prophet, Isaiah, and he's saying that God declared the end from the beginning, if I were to read the end of the Bible first, Revelation… then go to Genesis, would I have a better understanding of the ways of God? 

Is that what the Bible does? Hmm. Let's look at it. If we go to the end, the book of Revelation, and in the very first chapter, verse one, it says, "The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his bondservants, the things which must shortly take place. And he sent and communicated it by his angel, to his bondservant, John." Well, right there tells me that this book is about a revelation that John wrote about…the Revelation of Jesus Christ.

What does the word "revelation” mean? It means "to take the cover off." So, what are we taking the cover off? It's uncovering the glory of Christ, and what the future holds when that glory is unveiled.

Hmm…okay. Let's just take that little bit there. Now let's go to the beginning of the Bible to Genesis, keeping in mind, we've got thousands and thousands of years, between the writing of Genesis, and the writing of the Book of Revelation, that John wrote.

Genesis was written by Moses, as theologians have understood and agreed upon. The interesting thing that I like to just stop and ponder about, and I hope you will too, is that the Book of Genesis may have been given to us by Moses with the Spirit of God, but Moses wasn’t even born during this time.

This is like 1,500 years of documentation that Moses wrote about, but he's not a living man during the timeline of Genesis. That is a miracle of information. If God were to download 1500 years of history before you were born with no Google search or Fact Check ability, and that information is used as the foundation for mankind for thousands of years how reliable would you feel sharing it? 

Thinking about the writings in Genesis, why is some information included, and other information we don't know anything about. For example, in chapter five in Genesis we have 32 verses of generations living hundreds of years, but very little information or details of their lives other than when they became a father, and no detail of who they were joined with for pregnancy to take place.

We must fill in our own blanks about who's marrying who, and where did this person come from. Was this literally the first man and woman or a beginning for Moses’ writing? How many years of Creation? Is it 6,000? Is it six days? Is it six million? There's a lot of unveiling there, that we've made doctrines out of, in a way that leaves us with questions.

In the questioning, we have taken other people’s studies, and assumed they had the wisdom of God to answer our questions instead of asking God, “Is that really the way it was meant for us to know as a foundation beginning of time?

Let’s go to Genesis 1:1, the very first verse most of us are familiar with, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” Let's just stop.

If we break that down, and I'm reading it from the NIV translation, go to each word, you will find that the word “beginning” is the same word as “first-fruits.” Now, the first fruits is talked about by Moses in the book of Exodus, but it's Paul, in the New Testament, that shows us that first fruits are not talking about an orange tree, an apple tree, or a pear tree. It's talking about us, and about Christ as the first fruit of many brethren in us.

Now we have something to apply here. So, if we started over and said, “In the first fruits, God ...” STOP. Let's take a better look at this word, “God.”

In former studies, the word “God” is just “God of all in all.” Sounds impressive, but this word “all” needs to be expanded. How big is your all of God? What about the many facets of God, the many relationship understandings of God, the omni-present, the omni-powerful, the omni-knowing God? All those facets have different realms of a relationship with Him. In the beginning, God is the Hebrew word, “Elohim.”

Theologians have taken this word, “Elohim,” and they get a little bit baffled, because it's a plurality word for many gods. We know there is one God. So the question becomes, "Oh, it must be where the concept of the Trinity comes from: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit."

When we say Elohim, I believe it means something more, because it's connected to first fruits. Re-read the first sentence in this manner, “In the first fruits, Elohim, or Christ, created the heavens and the earth.”

When we relook at the end of the Bible in Revelation which says, “This book is about Jesus Christ,” and we apply what Isaiah told us, the end was completed before the beginning, we can now go back to the beginning of the Bible and plug in the Spirit and the bride – Christ all in all created the heavens and the earth (Colossians 3:11). Now, in the word “Elohim,” We have the body of Christ -the bride, the church. We have the head of Christ Jesus. We have all in all, that created the heavens and the earth. The word heavens are plural. It's not just one place.

We can now ask the question where really is Heaven? What's that about? The Scripture tells us the heavens is the same word used in Genesis One, as the “expanse, or the firmament.”

As we go back through Genesis One, and we read about the firmament, the waters above the firmament, and the waters below the firmament, there's something bigger being created. The clouds, the Sun, the Moon, and the stars that we've interpreted in the first six days of creation are secondary.

What's happening here is a creation of thought, a creation of the mind of Christ, and the creation of the expansion of what Light looks like. All these words in the first verse are being evaluated, or taking a deeper understanding of what took place in the beginning.

“And the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters” (Genesis 1:2). With our nuggets of discerning deeper understanding of God, what is He saying here?"

Remember He finished everything before Genesis 1:1 was written. He finished the end in Revelation before the beginning. It takes the anointing of the Holy Spirit to gain understanding, because it's the anointing that moves across the face of the deep.

If we don't know what the face of the deep, or the face of the darkness is all about, and we think it is an empty body of water somewhere out there we will miss the wisdom of God. This is talking about our identity being born of who we are.

When Elohim says, “Let there be light,” in verse three it's not just the quickening of God, somewhere out here. It's the Christ in you hearing the Christ in someone else, calling forth the anointing that is already in you, and saying, “Let there be light, let there be love, let there be life.” And there was. The Divine DNA seed breathed upon the face identity of each of us as part of Christ creation before we were conceived in our mother’s womb (Jeremiah 1:5). 

What John wrote in Revelation is an unveiling of the Word, the Word, the Word, and a whole new light of love, of light, and a power and authority that is in you now, because of the DNA that's in you, through your Heavenly Father, the Father of Lights. “Every good gift bestowed, every perfect gift received comes to us from above, courtesy of the Father of lights. He is consistent. He won’t change His mind or play tricks in the shadows” (James 1:17).

Not the father of human beings, the Father of Lights. That's what James told us. When you know that light, when you know that truth, you know freedom, that as He is, so are you today in this world (1 John 4:17).

This may be a new thought process in reading Genesis. I would encourage you to go back and find research material that will help you to break down every word, and words that really don't even belong. With our many translations of the Bible into English, we have been taught to fill in the gaps with our culture and customs, reducing the anointing of what God was establishing.

I hope you will find great grace and mercy that says, “God loves you, and He created you exactly as you are, for such a time as this, and for such a purpose as now.” From this awakening of your spirit identity in Christ you should be able to read Revelation, not as a scary book, but an unveiling of who you truly are (Psalm 139).